Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-26
A PISTOL FACTORY.
eATuNes, SHOT GUNS, ENGINES
AND TYPE SETTING MACHINES.

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Feed for the Calling Gnn-A Big Shot
Gun-The Ihorne Typesetter's Peculiar
tiles
In the spring Of 1861 the writer was an en-
ploye at Colts shop. and having q leisure
hour the other day visited the shop. Through
the kindness of an old friend he was given
permission to inspect the factory and note
the changes and improvements that twenty
five years have wrought. In 1861 pistols and
! rifles were made. Now, in connection With
| the improved rifles and pistols, are manufact-
ured the famous Calling guns, shot guns,
Baxter and Disc engines, TI,orne's type set
| ting and distributing machine, Waterhouse
/! electric dynamos INC lights, screws, etc.
The Colts self cooking double action pis-
tolls are too well known to need any descrip-
ton, and perhaps the same may be said of
the new lightning magazine rife, which
works ON the pump principle similar to the
Spencer gun, and which are called in sports
mans parlance, stomach pumps" Fifteen
shells can be placed in the magazine and fired
very rapidly, while the perfect mechanism of
the rife prevents clogging and insures per-
feet safety. Thu reputation of the Colts
shot gun is too well established to need any
Recommendation lug ue" udIQ00GllS
double barreled gun is now in geat demand,
especially among sportsmen who enjoy trap
shooting, and the best scores made at these
matches are won with the Colt gun. While
we point with pride to our superiority over
other countries in our mechanical and manu-
featuring establishments, it is somewhat
humiliating to be told that the barrels for all
these guns are imported in a rough state, and
kh>k -@~4 ~ %hn~ ~nnAN ~ &Ls- ~r-A-
These barrels come singly, and the soldering
and fitting up is done here, so that all guns
are ranged to shoot alike.
TEE "cHoKE BORE"
A great improvement over the old fash
toned shot gun-and especially is this 50 for
clay pigeon shooting-is the choke bore. This
consists in boring the barrel 50 that it IS
much smaller at the muzzle, n the shot
do not scatter, as in the straight bore. Many
of these guns are made to order and choked |
to suit the fancy Of the purchaser. From
800 to 400 is the usual number selected.
Perhaps an explanation would make this
moro Ineligible to the majority Of your
and means simply that the gun as
tested at the armory will at a distance of
forty yards in a charge Of one and one eighth
ounces No. 8 shot send 3OO shot within the
radius of a thirty inch circle.
One Of these guns was recently ordered, to
weigh twelve pounds, and it will stand q
of five drains Of powder and two
ounces of shot a miniature cannon, which
ought to give the owner a decided advantage
in trap shooting over one with a Eight gun,
using only the regulation charge of three
of powder and one and one eighth
of shot.
The Calling gun is constantly being i'm
INC through the kindness of one Of
the firm we were show the latest improve
Some sizes Of the guns have two
feeds, and are so constructed that one hun
dred shots can be fred in two and one half
One can scarcely believe this unless
be has seen it, as it seems impossible that the
cartridges can be placed in the gun, fired
extracted SO rapidly. A new feed has
oeen invented, by which the loading canister
AN be dispensed with and the cartridges slid
rom the box into two slots, which hold
hem by the rim till they fall into the grips,
carry them into the chamber.
THoRNE TYPEsErTER.
The Thorne typesetter is to one interested
n new machinery the most attractive and
'eculiar machine now made in the shop.
And by the courtesy Of Mr.. Joseph Thorne.
inventor, We were shown its entire
'eculiar workings. This machine has been
gently described, but many improvements
ave been added, and the working of the I
machine Is now said to be quite perfect. The
lze OF the cylinder has been increased, and {
ighty-two letters, fgures and characters ,
sed by the printer can be placed in one S
The inventor claims that with {
wo men and a boy to feed in the type tho J
FORK equals that accomplished by six men in
old way; or that by this machine 700
can be set up In eight minutes.
All the type used in Gen. Logan's book
as set up with one Of these machines. il
hey cost 81, ZOO, the indexing and fitting in il
I the guides for the nicked combination on t
type requiring a large amount of skilled e
nd exact labor. T cooperate the machine re- s.
uires only the same skill and practice needed t.
) successfully run q typewriter.-Cor. b
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